Lionel Gelber Prize

Given by Lionel Gelber Foundation

129 Obras 72,837 Libros 1,418 Reseñas 4.1

Awarded by the Lionel Gelber Foundation in partnership with the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto and Foreign Policy

The Gelber Prize is a literary award for the

mostrar más world's best non-fiction book in English that seeks to deepen public debate on significant global issues

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Stages:
Todos, Winner (33), Shortlist (88), Longlist (8)
Years:
Todos, 2024 (5), 2023 (1), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (4), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (12), 2012 (6), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (4), 2002 (5), 2001 (5), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1)
Announced:
Febrero 8: Lista corta2024 Reciente

Winner 33

ObraAño
Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise por Susan L. Shirk2023
The American War in Afghanistan: A History por Carter Malkasian2022
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace por Matthew C. Klein2021
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning por Ivan Krastev2020
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World por Adam Tooze2019
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine por Anne Applebaum2018
A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS por Robert F. Worth2016
Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone por Scott Shane2016
El último imperio. Los días finales de la Unión Soviética por Serhii Plokhy2015
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide por Gary J. Bass2014
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else por Chrystia Freeland2013
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China por Ezra F. Vogel2012
Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America por Shelagh D. Grant2011
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China por Jay Taylor2010
A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East por Lawrence Freedman2009
El club de la miseria : qué falla en los países más pobres del mundo por Paul Collier2008
La Torre elevada : Al-Qaeda y los orígenes del 11-S por Lawrence Wright2007
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves por Adam Hochschild2006
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 por Steve Coll2004
America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy por Ivo H. Daalder2003
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World por Walter Russell Mead2002
John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 3: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 por Robert Skidelsky2001
A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China por Patrick Tyler2000
El fantasma del rey Leopoldo por Adam Hochschild1999
Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years por Robert Kinloch Massie1998
Aftermath: the Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat por Donovan Webster1997
Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev por Vladislav Zubok1996
Historia del siglo XX, 1914-1991 por Eric Hobsbawm1995
Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism por Michael Ignatieff1994
Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World por Kanan Makiya1993
Truman por David McCullough1992
Code of peace : ethics and security in the world of the warlord states por Dorothy V. Jones1991
The Search for Modern China por Jonathan D. Spence1990

Shortlist 88

ObraAño
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity por Daron Acemoglu2024
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy por Henry Farrell2024
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe por Timothy Garton Ash2024
Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization por Harold James2024
We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age por Wendy H. Wong2024
To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa por Emily Bass2022
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy and the Displacement of American Power (Bridging the Gap) por Rush Doshi2022
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe por Niall Ferguson2022
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust por Jeffrey Veidlinger2022
Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs por Peter Andreas2021
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism por Anne Applebaum2021
Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World por Charles A. Kupchan2021
War: How Conflict Shaped Us por Margaret MacMillan2021
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty por Daron Acemoglu2020
Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists por Audrey Kurth Cronin2020
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent por Peter Gatrell2020
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 por Ian Kershaw2020
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria por Rania Abouzeid2019
The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State por Elizabeth C. Economy2019
How Democracies Die por Steven Levitsky2019
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America por Timothy Snyder2019
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? por Graham Allison2018
The Future of War: A History por Lawrence Freedman2018
The Internationalists and their plan to outlaw war por Oona A. Hathaway2018
Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century por Richard McGregor2018
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon por Rosa Brooks2017
Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World por Shadi Hamid2017
The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News por Arkady Ostrovsky2017
Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran por Laura Secor2017
Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History por Barry Eichengreen2016
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist por Niall Ferguson2016
The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution por Dominic Lieven2016
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire por Susan Pedersen2016
The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan por Jack Fairweather2015
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China por Evan Osnos2015
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel por Ari Shavit2015
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp por Lawrence Wright2015
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 por Lynne Olson2014
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety por Eric Schlosser2014
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present por Brendan Simms2014
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order por Benn Steil2014
El Telón de acero : la destrucción de Europa del Este, 1944-1956 por Anne Applebaum2013
The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics por Paul Bracken2013
Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World por Kwasi Kwarteng2013
De las ruinas de los imperios : la rebelión contra Occidente y la metamorfosis de Asia por Pankaj Mishra2013
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War por Amanda Foreman2012
George F. Kennan: An American Life por John Lewis Gaddis2012
Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth por Frederick Kempe2012
China por Henry Kissinger2012
The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia por Nick Cullather2011
¿Porqué manda Occidente ... por ahora? : una historia de la civilización como nunca antes se ha escrito por Ian Morris2011
Yalta: The Price of Peace por Serhii Plokhy2011
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World por Doug Saunders2011
La revolución europea : cómo el Islam ha cambiado el viejo continente por Christopher Caldwell2010
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy por David E. Hoffman2010
The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda por Andrew Rice2010
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008 por Thomas E. Ricks2010
Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade por Bill Emmott2009
MC MAFIA: EL CRIMEN SIN FRONTERAS por Misha Glenny2009
Descenso al caos : EEUU y el fracaso d ela construcción nacional en Pakistán, Afganistán y Asia Central por Ahmed Rashid2009
El mundo después de USA por Fareed Zakaria2009
Multicultural Odysseys por Will Kymlicka2008
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism por Erez Manela2008
Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia por Richard J. Samuels2008
LEGADO DE CENIZAS. HISTORIA DE LA CIA por Tim Weiner2008
Dangerous Nation por Robert Kagan2007
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World por Margaret MacMillan2007
The International Struggle Over Iraq por David M. Malone2007
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq por Thomas E. Ricks2007
The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right por Daniel Benjamin2006
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya por Caroline Elkins2006
El fin de la pobreza: Cómo conseguirlo en nuestro tiempo (Spanish Edition) por Jeffrey D. Sachs2006
Taming American Power por Stephen M. Walt2006
El mal menor : ética política en una era de terror por Michael Ignatieff2004
The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace por Dennis Ross2004
Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah por Olivier Roy2004
A New World Order por Anne-Marie Slaughter2004
Paris, 1919 por Margaret MacMillan2003
The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland por Karl Ernest Meyer2003
El futuro de la libertad : las democracias "iliberales" en el mundo por Fareed Zakaria2003
The Chastening: Inside The Crisis That Rocked The Global Financial System And Humbled The Imf por Paul Blustein2002
La paradoja del poder norteamericano por Joseph S. Nye Jr.2002
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide por Samantha Power2002
Strangers in the House por Raja Shehadeh2002
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan por Herbert P. Bix2001
Ho Chi Minh por William J. Duiker2001
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 por Niall Ferguson2001
Night of Stone por Catherine Merridale2001

Longlist 8

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Awarded by the Lionel Gelber Foundation in partnership with the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto and Foreign Policy

The Gelber Prize is a literary award for the world's best non-fiction book in English that seeks to deepen public debate on significant global issues

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Began in 1990. There is no award dated 2005 as the 2006 award brought the year of the award into line with the actual year awarded.

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